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Title: My bondage and my freedom ..
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Subjects: Antislavery movements -- United States Slavery -- Maryland
Publisher: New York, Miller, Orton & Mulligan
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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; and so, to theend of the chapter. I had no relations in Baltimore,and I saw no probability of ever living, in the neigh- 334 LIFE AS A SLAVE. borlioocl of sisters and brothers; but the thoiiglit ofleaving my friends, was among the strongest obsta-cles to my running away. The last two days of theweek—Friday and Saturday—were spent mostly incollecting my things together, for my journey. Hav-ing worked four days that week, for my master, Ihanded him six dollars, on Saturday night. I seldomspent my Sundays at home ; and, for fear that some-thing might be discovered in my conduct, I kept upmy custom, and absented myself all day. On Mon-day, the third day of September, 1838, in accordancewith my resolution, I bade farewell to the city of Bal-timore, and to that slavery which had been my ab-horrence from childhood. How I got away—in what direction I traveled—•whether by land or by water; whether with or with-out assistance—must, for reasons already mentioned,remain unexplained.
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LIFE AS A FREEMAN. CHAPTER XZII. LIBERTY ATTAI)SED. TEANSITION FROM SLAVEUY TO FREEDOM A V\rAXDERER IX NEW fORK FEELING^ OX REACT!IXG THAT CITY AX OLD ACQUAIXTAXCE MET UNFA-VORABLE IMPRE^SIONS LOXELTXESS AXD INSECURITY APOLOGY FOR SLAVES WHO RETURX TO THEtR MASTERS COMPELLED TO TELL MY CON- DITIOX SUCCORED BY A SAILOR DAVID RUGGLES THE UXDER-GROUXD RAILROAD MARRIAGE BAGGAGE TAKEN FROM ME KIXDXESS OF NA-THAN JOHNSON THE AUTHORs CHANGE OF NAME DARK NOTIONS OF NORTHERX CIVILIZATION ^THE COXTRAST COLORED PEOPLE IN NEW BED-FORD AX IXCIDEXT ILLUSTRATIXG THEIR SPIRIT THE AUTHOR AS A COM- MOX LABORER DEXIED WORK AT HIS TRADE THE FIRST WINTER AT THE NORTH REPULSE AT THE DOORS OF THE CHURCH SANCTIFIED HATE THE LIBERATOR AND ITS EDITOR. There is no necessity for any extended notice ofthe incidents of this part of my life. There is no-thing very striking or peculiar about my career as afreeman, when viewed apart from my life as a slave.The rehition subsisting between my early experienceand that w

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